Daily Inspiration Quote by Jim Garrison

The line performs a neat rhetorical two-step: it sounds like a sober procedural complaint, then quietly detonates into an indictment. Garrison begins with the language of civics - "interesting to know" - as if he’s merely curious about an archival footnote. But the sentence is engineered to make curiosity feel impossible. If the CIA knew something about Oswald six weeks before Dallas, then ignorance stops looking like an accident and starts looking like a choice.

The power sits in the contrast between what should happen in a functioning democracy and what allegedly did. The Warren Commission was built to launder chaos into closure; Garrison’s jab is that closure may have been manufactured by selective access to information. "This particular message" is deliberately vague: the very anonymity of the document becomes the point. He’s not just alleging hidden evidence; he’s spotlighting the machinery that can hide it, with bureaucratic calm. "Never reached" implies a blocked channel, not a lost envelope. "Remain a complete mystery" is less lament than accusation: mysteries don’t persist in Washington without someone tending them.

Context matters. By the late 1960s, faith in government had been eroded by Vietnam, secrecy, and the growing sense that official narratives were curated. Garrison, a New Orleans DA turned national antagonist, understood that the argument wasn’t only about who pulled a trigger; it was about who controls the record. His intent is to move the public from suspicion to a more corrosive conclusion: if the archive is managed, then history is negotiable.